Hyderabad, September '04: Indian Nurses are in the stage of transformation of their career.  From the days of mere caretakers, they have  emerged to play the role of an ambassador between a physician and a patient. Many times they fulfil many of the functions of a doctor.  But unfortunately we don’t have many good quality nurses for quality healthcare said Mr. P. Krishna Murthy, Registrar of A.P Nursing Council addressing a gathering of Nurses, Paramedical staff and health industry fraternity immediately after inaugurating Neon Nursing Network Pvt Ltd, a new organisation floated for the career management of nursing and other health care professionals. He was the Chief Guest at the Inuaugral function at Neon Nursing Network office premises at Medchal . 

 

For the first time in the history of the career of nurses they are in huge demand due to the critical shortage of registered nurses in the United States.  This  has led to a boom in the recruitment of Indian nurses to America.  Keeping the unprecedented demand for trained Indian nurses and para medical staff, a new organization “Neon Nursing Network Pvt. Ltd.” for specialized training of Nurses and other health care professionals like para medical staff etc has been established.  It is being promoted by Share Health Care & MediCiti Health Care Services Pvt. Ltd. set up under the parent company Share USA. 

 

Mrs. Swarajya Lakshmi, Deputy Director of Nursing, Government of Andhra Pradesh, also graced the occasion and appreciated the mangement of Neon Nursing Network Pvt. Ltd. (NNNPL) for starting a new organisation to impart quality training as  there is lot of need for the trained professionals nurses not only in India but abroad, she said.  Today’s nurses need to possess quality standards on par with staff in other medical  fields.  

 

Mr. R. Vijaya Kumar, Chairman of Share Health Care also spoke on the occasion.  He said Neon sees Nursing as Delivering Care, with responsibility and commitment by applying the knowledge of medical regimen and clinical perception.  NNNPL is committed to developing the Nursing community in this vast field of medical staffing and health care services.Neon Nursing Network’s is being set up with an aim to contribute towards generating the nursing talent through focussing on rigorous value based training and to offer medical staffing services to healthcare institutions and establishments across the globe, informed Mr. Narayan Swamy, CEO of Mediciti Hospitals.

 

Dr. Surender Reddy, Principal of Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, Mrs. Marsi Augustin, Director of Nursing, Mediciti, Dr. Malakond Reddy and others graced the occasion.  Over 300 nursing students have also participated in the inaugural function.  Ms. J.M. Leena, Project Manager who made a slide presentation highlighted the shortage of professionally trained nurses in India and their demand in USA, U.K, Australia etc.